Jon Williams is a New York CTO, a technology networker, and an Australian-American. Email jon at jonwilliams.com

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

How to choose between a Mac and a PC?

Simple. Is price the major factor in your purchase decision?
YES -> buy a PC NO-> buy a Mac
Apologies to anyone who was expecting more. FYI, six months ago I purchased a MacBookPro, it had been 20 years since I my last Mac.

UPDATE 3/23/2013 - Never looked back from this decision, and have become a 100% Mac household. For startups in NYC, almost all are going with Macs. For developers, a non-brainer.

Jon -- love your blog, which I just discovered. Mac vs. PC... I switched back to a mac a few years ago and have never regretted it. I recently won a Windows Vista powered Sony "netbook". When setting it up for my wife (who I re-gifted this machine to), I was stunned by the idiosyncrasies of Windows Vista. Setting up Skype turned out to be quite challenging. Every time I switched skype on to use the internal camera, some other app popped up which noticed that I wanted to use the camera... and then tried to 'help' me. I have more stories like this one, but am afraid my poor wife will have to suffer through them ;-)

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Jon started this blog as an opportunity to share his
technology management experience with a wider audience. Jon is technology advisor in NYC. Jon's past experience as a technology executive / CTO includes Experian CheetahMail, iVillage / NBC Universal, Kaplan, Grey Healthcare, Time Warner, Scholastic, Flat World Knowledge, Oxygen Media, News Corporation, CDnow, 24/7 Media and Bigfoot Interactive.
Jon was born in Australia, and moved permanently to the USA in 1986. In 2000, Jon co-founded the New York CTO Club, a non-profit professional organization, which provides a monthly forum for 80+ technology leaders from many of New York’s best-known companies to share strategies and ideas in a collaborative and collegial environment. Jon is also a mentor in Columbia University’s Executive Masters in Technology Management program, where he helps students present technology plans to business stakeholders. In 2008 he was named one of Infoworld’s top 25 CTOs.